Halloween Cookie Decorating Tricks & Treats

October 9, 2023

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For a fun and festive Halloween activity (no baking required), order a Halloween Cookie Decorating Kit from our Bakery! Each DIY decorating kit comes with pre-cut sugar cookies in shapes like bats, ghosts and pumpkins, plus pastry bags filled with different colors of vanilla buttercream and sprinkles on the side.

While you can obviously decorate however your heart desires, here are a few step-by-step ideas to get you started. Happy decorating!

General Tips:

• Cut ¼ inch off the tip of the pastry bag for a smaller piping tip, or ½ inch for a larger piping tip.
• Add sprinkles quickly before the buttercream dries!

Classic Ghost:

1. Squeeze white buttercream onto cookie and smooth out with a knife.
2. Outline with a different color to make your cookie pop!
3. Write “BOO!” on the body and add a silly face.

Candy Corn Ghost:

1. Spread the top third of the cookie with white buttercream.
2. Spread the middle third of the cookie with yellow buttercream.
3. Spread the bottom third of the cookie with orange buttercream.
4. Drag your knife with equal pressure from bottom to top to create a mosaic candy corn effect.
5. Finally, add a spooky face with another color of buttercream.

Classic Bat:

1. Squeeze black buttercream on cookie and smooth out with a knife.
2. Outline with a different color of buttercream so it stands out.
3. Add a pair of eyes to finish it off!

Sprinkle Bat:

1. Squeeze your choice of buttercream on cookie and smooth out with a knife.
2. Cover in sprinkles before it dries!

Jack O’ Lantern:

1. With a wider tip, pipe a series of orange parentheses shapes on the left and right side of the cookie, with one straight line down the middle.
2. Use different colors to add a stem on top, plus two triangle eyes and a toothy grin.
3. Finish by putting sprinkles in the palm of your hand and pressing them onto the side of the cookie.

Zig Zag Pumpkin:

1. Draw a zig zag diagonally across cookie with a darker color of buttercream, then outline and fill in half the cookie with that same color and smooth out frosting.
2. Outline and fill the other half of the cookie with a second color, then smooth out the frosting.
3. Add sprinkles to the bottom half of the cookie for extra flair.

Ready to try your hand at these spooktacular sweets? Order online or call your local Nugget Market to order a Halloween Cookie Decorating Kit from our Bakery while supplies last! 

Please order at least 48 hours in advance. The last day to order is Sunday, October 29, 2023 for pick-up on Tuesday, October 31, 2023. Selection may vary by store.

Article originally published in October of 2020 and updated in October of 2023.

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